For more than a generation after World War II, many Austrians insisted that Austria was a victim of Nazi aggression in 1938 and therefore bore no responsibility for German war crimes. During the past twenty years, this myth has been revised to include a more complex view of the past-one with both Austrian perpetrators and victims. This volume richly illustrates this view. Gerhard Weinberg places the role of Austrians within the larger story of World War II. Oliver Rathkolb analyzes the postwar trajectory in the politics of memory of the Anschluss of 1938.
